Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Last Supper

Goodbye southern hemisphere, we leave you tomorrow for the lands full of elephants and spring rolls. One last dip in your warm waters, a few small errands to run and it is off to the north, where 24 hours later we'll be in Thailand. We've been sleeping on an air mattress for the past four day watching the tiny ants and spiders scurry across the bare floor. Had there always been so many bugs in this apartment? Did they just hide in the couch?

We didn't really trumpet our departure that much... no goodbye parties or farewell BBQs, we just kinda left. The few friends we had, we made sure that one last bit of bread was broken amongst the table, with promises to do so again soon.

To do it all again, how would we do Australia differently? I think that seeing six of the states and territories here in the continent qualifies as getting around sufficiently, but we could have done more with the Holden when it was in better health. We learned not to get so worked up about the apartments we didn't get at the beginning of our stay here, because it turned out that we landed a pretty nice one. Bugs included. I think we got a good perspective on Australian culture through the integration that our sports teams provided us. Many 'tourists' never venture that deep into the Western Suburbs to see life outside of the cosmopolitan Sydney.

I'm hoping that we can immerse a bit in S.E. Asia. We're on a pretty aggressive timeline with regards to all that we want to see and do. Cannot forget to actually talk to people and hopefully make some friends along the way.

posted by ncawthon at 11:24 PM